“For sure the enchanted waters pour through every wind that blows.”

—  George William Russell

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: For sure the enchanted waters pour through every wind that blows.
I think when night towers up aloft and shakes the trembling dew
How every high and lonely thought that thrills my being through
Is but a ruddy berry dropped down through the purple air,
And from the magic tree of life the fruit falls everywhere.

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Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867–1935

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